Module 10

Question 1

What is net neutrality?

Answer 1

The principle that Internet service providers should not restrict access to any online content.

Question 2

What does survey research conducted in Egypt during the Arab Spring show?

Answer 2

• Using new electronic communications media was associated with being a protester.
• Protesters tended to be people with strong grievances related to unemployment, poverty, and corruption.
• Protesters were more available for protest activities than others were because they tended to be unmarried men living in cities and tended to have strong, pre-existing ties to various charitable, political, and other civic associations.

Question 3

Which of the following research methods provides the least valid assessment of the relationship between TV violence and real-world violence?

Answer 3

Laboratory Experiments

Question 4

What are the three factors account for the rise of the mass media.

Answer 4

• The widespread use of the Bible after the Protestant Reformation in the sixteenth century.
• The spread of democracy beginning in the eighteenth century.
• Capitalist industrialization.

Question 5

Which theory claims that the mass media are biased because of advertising, sourcing, and flak?

Answer 5

Conflict theory

Question 6

Social movement leaders decide to water down their movement’s ideals because they think that would enable them to recruit more members. What activity are they engaged in?

Answer 6

Frame alignment

Question 7

An intolerable gap develops between the social rewards people expect to receive and those they actually receive. What do they experience?

Answer 7

Relative deprivation

Question 8

A new group of major inventions has cropped up every 40 to 60 years since the Industrial Revolution. These flurries of creativity cause major economic growth spurts, beginning 10 to 20 years later and lasting 25 to 35 years each. What term describes this phenomenon?

Answer 8

Kondratiev waves

Question 9

More than two million used uranium fuel bundles are sitting at temporary storage sites in Canada. Their useful life fuelling nuclear reactors is over. Scientists and government officials know that they will be dangerously radioactive for at least another 10,000 years and that leakage could cause mass radioactive poisoning to nearby populations. Does this constitute a social problem?

Answer 9

No. However, the situation could become a social problem if a social movement and the mass media publicize it and many people come to recognize that the situation could harm them.

Question 10

What are the functions of the mass media according to functionalist theory?

Answer 10

• Coordinating the operation of industrial and postindustrial societies.
• Acting as important agents of socialization.
• Helping to ensure conformity.

Question 11

social change

Answer 11

the alteration of social structures and cultures

Question 12

climate change

Answer 12

a shift in average temperature, rainfall, storm intensity, and other weather conditions

Question 13

collective action

Answer 13

occurs when people organize mass voting campaigns, large demonstrations, disruptive blockades, etc. to bring about social change.

Question 14

frame alignment

Answer 14

the process in which individual interests, beliefs, and values become congruent and complementary with the activities, goals, and ideology of a social movement